Jihadist video claims beheading of French hostage

A video published on a Internet on Sept. 24 by a organisation job itself Jund al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of a Caliphate, shows French mountaineer Herve Gourdel before his beheading. Gourdel, 55, was abducted Sept. 21.(Photo: SITE Intelligence Group)

An Algerian jihadist organisation related to a Islamic State expelled a video Wednesday display a French traveller who was abducted Sunday and beheaded, a U.S. belligerent watchdog organisation says.

French President Francois Hollande reliable a murdering of Hervé Gourdel, condemning it as a “cruel and cowardly” act.

“Our compatriot has been murdered,” Hollande pronounced before his debate to a United Nations General Assembly in New York.

After seizing Gourdel, 55, a mountaineering beam from Nice, on Sunday, a nonconformist organisation Jund al-Khilafah warned that he would be killed within 24 hours unless a French boss halted French airstrikes in Iraq opposite a Islamic State nonconformist group.

France insisted it would not behind down on a attacks.

France was a initial U.S. fan to lift out airstrikes opposite a Islamic State though insisted it would aim usually a nonconformist army in Iraq, not Syria.

The video is patrician in French “A summary of blood for a French government.” It shows Gourdel kneeling, his arms tied behind his back, in front of a half-dozen armed and masked men.

Gourdel speaks briefly, expressing adore for his family, before one of a militants reads out a debate disapproval “French rapist crusaders” opposite Muslims in Algeria, Mali and Iraq, Agence France-Presse reported.

A belligerent approaches Gourdel with a knife. The tangible beheading is not decorated in a video, rather it goes to black, resuming with a shot of what appears to be a victim’s severed conduct resting on his body.

Herve Gourdel was kidnapped in Algeria on Sept. 21 by Jund al-Khilafah, a organisation related to radical Islamic State militants.(Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Gourdel was abducted in a northeast Kabylie segment of Algeria, a BBC reported.

The Islamic State, formed in regions of Syria and Iraq, has beheaded 3 Western hostages given August. Two of a victims, James Foley and Steve Sotloff, were U.S. journalists. The third, David Haines, was a British assist worker.

The Islamic State has threatened to decapitate another British assist worker, Alan Henning.

Contributing: Associated Press

A French inhabitant kidnapped in Algeria appears in a video observant he has been kidnapped by an Algeria-based Islamic State offshoot. Rough Cut (no contributor narration).
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